Now: the Now songs compilation

The Now songs have been compiled into a special playlist at SoundCloud, and added to a new Now page at our website.

This compilation of Now’s songs features a number of songs from the Band of Georges demos, and a few from Pok‘s Anthology album. None of the songs on this new compilation are actual recordings of the band Now.

Back in the day, George was a far more prolific songwriter than Simon, so the Now set features far more of George’s songs. Simon also became highly prolific, but it happened after Now had come to an end.

All of the songs in this compilation were included in the repertoire of Now’s second incarnation. This lineup of the band consisted of Simon (guitar, voice), George (guitar, voice) and Grape (drums).

The second incarnation evolved out of the first incarnation of Now, which was Mark Drower on acoustic guitar and voice, Jon Kneebone on drums, and Simon and George both on guitar.

With all the Band of Georges songs released, we are finally able to make such compilations for our legacy bands. These older bands may not necessarily have versions of all of their songs recorded.

Making these compilations will allow new fans to discover the music. It also allows old fans to hear the songs the bands would have performed back in the day once again, and perhaps to remember them, as well as hear these particular versions, as imagined by the composers, if arguably performed and recorded somewhat ham-fistedly.

Now only actually performed one proper show with electric guitars and amplification. That was at Sidbury Colleseum (aka village hall) in February 1983. They did’t manage to complete their set before deciding that discretion was the better part of valor and abandoning the stage to drink cider and let the DJ take over.

All the same, we arranged these songs into some sort of a set order that Now might have played, had they managed to perform a bit better and more often. We hope you enjoy the ride!

There are a few more songs that are not represented in the compilation. We hope to be able to locate these and process them in our machines so that they can be uploaded someday.

We are planning to publish more compilations of the sets of other legacy bands who are not terribly well represented here. Further such announcements will be made via our News service, and on BlueSky and X (formerly Twitter).

They may even be published at our Bandcamp Community! We cordially invite you to click here and join it.

To listen to this new compilation of Now songs at SoundCloud, please click here.

If you would rather listen via the Now pages right here at the Wud Records website, please click here instead.